New Delhi: Maharashtra caretaker Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has offered a compromise formula to Union Home Minister Amit Shah if the BJP wants the CM post, say Shiv Sena sources.
According to sources, Shinde told Shah that as the assembly election was fought under his leadership, women voters, Marathas and OBCs voted for the Mahayuti due to the Ladli Bahena scheme, reservation decision and co-operative boards set up for various communities respectively.
Shinde is understood to have said that people voted with the expectation that he will be the next chief minister of Maharashtra, adding that if he is not made the chief minister, the wrong message will be sent to these sections of the society.
He also is understood to have showed a couple of surveys where he was the main choice of the people as chief minister,” said a senior Shiv Sena leader who requested anonymity.
Shinde then asked for the home, finance and revenue portfolios to balance the power in the state if Fadnavis is elevated as chief minister.
Shah, according to sources, subsequently directed all three leaders of Mahayuti to meet again in Mumbai and get back to him,” said the source.
Shinde further said if these three portfolios could not be given to the Sena, then his party will not be part of the government.
The Shiv Sena leader said that his party will extend outside support in the state and the seven Lok Sabha MPs of the party will also support the Narendra Modi government from outside for the larger Hindutva cause.
